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April is the season of hay firing in Southern Laos. Visiting Southern Laos at this time of the year, what people feel first is hot weather. The temperature is usually between 37°C and 40°C, plus scotching sun and dry wind, baking people and things on earth. Vietnamese military officers from the Kon Tum provincial Military Command and Military Region 5 experienced the “weather specialty” of Southern Laos when visiting the Khetsomboun village grouping, Phouvong district, Attapeu province, Laos on the occasion of the Lao traditional Bunpimay festival, from April 2-5. Health checkups given to Lao people As usual, when the Lao traditional Bunpimay festival is coming, the Kon Tum provincial Military Command sends a mission to Lao people living on the other side of the shared border to visit, extend greetings, present gifts as well as provide free health checkups and medicines to the local people. This year, a Vietnamese military mission of 27 … [Read more...] about Vietnamese military officers bring joy to Lao people

Prof. Dr. Lieutenant General Mai Hong Bang addressing the ceremony Numerous delegates, including former leaders of the hospital, the central and local ministries and sectors attended the event under the chair of Prof. Dr. Lieutenant General Mai Hong Bang, Party Committee Secretary and Director of the hospital. Speaking at the event, General Bang recalled contributions of generations of the hospital’s doctors and medical workers over the past time. Accordingly, they promoted solidarity, unity and creativeness to overcome difficulties and fulfill all assigned missions, contributing to taking care of soldiers’ and peoples’ health. The hospital’s medical staff has increasingly studied to apply technology and technical advances into medical treatment, he added. In 2017 alone, the hospital provided heath checkups for nearly 920,000 patients, first aid to 37,000 cases and operations for over 28,000 patients. The hospital has determined and planned to focus on … [Read more...] about Military medical workers honored

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a U.S. air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city. The northern city of Kunduz has been the scene of fierce fighting since the Taliban captured it almost a week ago. Afghan security forces fought their way into Kunduz four days ago, but battles continue in many places. The aid group has said an air strike, probably carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday in a hospital it runs in Kunduz, leaving 37 wounded. The U.S. military said it conducted an air strike "in the vicinity" of the hospital, as it targeted Taliban insurgents who were directly firing on U.S. military personnel. The U.S. government promised a full investigation into the incident as the U.N. human rights chief said the bombing could amount to a war crime. In a statement, President Barack … [Read more...] about MSF denies Taliban was firing from Afghan hospital hit by air strike

A U.S. air strike that destroyed a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last month resulted from "human errors, failures in procedure and technical malfunctions," the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing military officials briefed on an internal investigation. The Oct. 3 attack, condemned by the medical charity as a war crime, killed 30 people and wounded at least 37. The findings of a U.S. military investigation into the incident will be made public on Wednesday, the Pentagon said. "It's a combination of factors," the Times quoted an unnamed senior Defense Department official as saying, describing the findings in what it said was a 3,000-page investigative file. Two other military officials said the Air Force AC130 gunship that attacked the hospital was intended to target a different compound several hundred feet (meters) away that was believed to be a Taliban base of operations, the paper reported. The "crew had been unable to rely on … [Read more...] about Report says combination of errors led to U.S. bombing of MSF hospital: NYT

All the hospital staff were determined to save him but General Giap passed away due to old age, according to a senior official of the Central Committee for the Protection and Care. >> Photos of Gen. Giap on Ho Chi Minh Trail published for first time >> State funeral for legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap “During the three last days of his life, a medical council came to visit him once per day. Before that, they diagnosed him every two or three weeks because he had been in better health conditions then” – the official said, adding that General Giap had no serious illness during his time at the hospital. “Though he was in critical situations many times, he still overcame them. Sometimes his heath was good sometimes bad but it is not unusual for an old person” – doctor Vu Phi Hai at the 108 Military Central Hospital said with watery eyes. A 37-strong medical team including doctors and nurses at the A11 faculty at the said hospital has a strong attachment to General Giap … [Read more...] about Military hospital staff missing ‘grandpa’ Gen. Giap